基本説明
First published in 1985, this beginner's introduction both to the theories of sound and sound production and to the history of some of the earliest experiments in instrument building and composition is thoroughly updated and enlarged in the theoretical and historical sections.
Full Description
Electronic and Experimental Music is a second edition of a well-known text on the history of electronic music. Holmes' original book, first published in 1985, was a beginner's introduction both to the theories of sound and sound production and to the history of some of the earliest experiments in instrument building and composition. In this new edition, the author thoroughly updates and enlarges the theoretical and historical sections. He also presents new material on using home computers and the many software and Internet resources available.
Contents
Introduction - new technology, new music, new listening. Electronic music - what it is, how it is made; electronic music resources; music from miniframes - the origins of computer music; musical precedents to electronic music - origins of the avant-garde; electronic pioneers - Cahill, Theremin, Martenot, Trautwein and Hammond; Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer and the institutionalization of sound; three pioneers - John Cage, Edgard Varese and Karlheinz Stockhausen; Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and the Columbia Tape Music Centre; Robert Moog, Wendy Carlos, and the birth of the commercial synthesizer; ONCE and future innovators - Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma; the San Francisco School - Ramon Sender, Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnik; new approaches, new styles; electronic music in the mainstream - a loss of history.
